I want to study April 9th, 18:59
I want to read it, but I can't read it, it's hard to read.
I want to write, but I can't write as I want.
There are such people.
One boy enjoyed studying with a little ingenuity of the adults around him and encounters with supporting tools.
We are about to take a new step.
(Naoko Okubo, Reporter, Network News Department) Kenta Hayashida)
I was a dropout
"I wonder if I'm stupid. I wonder if I can't do that," said
Yusuke Kikuta (18), who lives in Kanagawa Prefecture.
I thought about myself when I was in elementary school.
I can't do many things like everyone else in the class.
The calligraphy pasted at the back of the classroom is blank only for me.
I can't put out an observation diary, a table of study studies, or homework.
After school almost every day, I stayed and did my homework.
It's painful to write
He was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome when he was in the first grade of elementary school.
"This child may have a hard time reading and writing,"
said her doctor, who tried to get her to read and write, but she didn't improve at all.
Japanese language test in 4th grade.
I wrote "Kikuta" in the name column.
While the classmates around me wrote their names in kanji, they were doing their best to write their surnames.
In the math test I took around the same time, the two-digit and three-digit multiplication did not reach the answer.
It was difficult to write numbers, but I couldn't write them side by side in two or three columns.
It's neither playful nor appropriate.
When I tried to write what I was thinking, my thoughts stopped there, and I went back to the beginning and reconsidered repeatedly.
In the end, my thoughts get messed up.
I was tired and frustrated by trying to write forcibly, and it became common for me to fold a pencil in two and go home.
I wasn't confident in myself and was always scared.
Such a figure eventually became the target of teasing of classmates, and was kicked and nelson hold.
I
was cornered so much that I felt
like "I want to die, I want to jump"
.
Characters move, run away
Tomonao (19), who lives in Nara Prefecture, is also not good at reading and writing.
He was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) in the upper grades of elementary school.
If there is visual sensitivity and the contrast is strong, such as when the characters are black and the background is pure white, it becomes difficult to see the characters.
Changing the background to something like light purple will soften it a little, but it's still a shame if the font of the characters is Mincho.
In the Mincho style, which has thin and thick parts compared to the Gothic style, the characters move when you try to read it.
Start running.
I will run away.
I don't know where I was reading.
Printing fonts that I'm not good at
There is an unforgettable event.
One day in the sixth grade, I couldn't read the prints distributed in class.
This is because a font that I was not good at was used.
I asked the teacher to give me the prints to use in class the day before.
I thought that if I got it the day before, I could ask my parents to switch to an easy-to-read font.
However, the teacher's answer is "no".
The reason was that I sometimes print prints on the day of class, and I can't give special treatment to just one person in the first place.
I can't read or write every day.
In the morning, I cried in bed and angered my parents.
"Why do you wake up? Why are you alive?"
The day when the light of hope was seen
Two boys who faced difficulties that they couldn't read or write.
There are tools that have made their learning much easier.
It is a personal computer or tablet terminal.
Mr. Kikuta, who is not good at writing, met a tablet terminal at a seminar he attended during the summer vacation of the fifth grade.
Using the on-screen keyboard, I was able to record the letters on the blackboard and the words of the teacher on the terminal without having to write them by hand.
In principle, it was forbidden to bring in such equipment in elementary school, but the teacher in charge helped me and I got special approval from April of the sixth grade.
The day I took notes using my tablet device for the first time.
"Mom, it was easier to take notes about 80 times more than usual!"
He reported to his mother.
Mr. Kikuta
"Just because I started using a tablet doesn't mean that I can study dramatically, but at least I can take notes more easily, and the thoughts I had in my head. I felt that I had a tool to shape it. The lessons became fun at once, my understanding deepened, and I was able to submit homework and so on. "
After that, the tablet terminal is always the same.
I always took it diagonally for both social studies tours and school trips.
When he bought the role of making slides to be presented in class, he felt that he was "contributing to the class."
I became less frustrated and more and more laughing with my friends.
After that, he continued to study at junior high school and high school using tablet terminals, and went on to university this spring.
We are taking a new step toward our dream of starting a business and creating tourism jobs that lead to regional revitalization.
Mr. Kikuta
"I'm happy to learn and I'm really excited about it. I want to tell myself when I was in elementary school. So I'd be happy if you could put up with it a little more. "
Whatever the means
Mr. Tomonao was also allowed to bring in a tablet terminal from junior high school, and when he started to convert fonts that he was not good at, he became able to understand the lessons.
After that, I went to a college of technology to make a robot that I loved since I was a child.
I had a dream of creating an assist robot that would make people's lives and work easier.
Now, I am working hard with the goal of transferring to a university where I can study mechanical engineering.
Mr. Tomonao
"Is writing by hand the only thing to write? If" writing "is" expressing, "what is the tool? Reading is the same, and" reading "is the same. If it's a "means for getting information," it doesn't matter whether you use reading software or a personal computer. I think so. "
I want you to notice, I want you to know
In fact, it is not uncommon for two children with developmental disabilities to be poor at reading and writing.
There is a survey that asked about 1000 parents of children with developmental disabilities what they are not good at.
▽ I hate writing ... 55%
▽ It takes time to write ... 46%
▽ Difficult to read aloud smoothly ... 28%
(2018 National LD Parents' Association survey)
Many parents find that their children are not good at reading and writing, but they say that they can be delayed.
Ikuyo Inoue, Chairman of the NPO National LD Parents Association
"Developmental disabilities often have various symptoms, but behavior is more noticeable, so reading and writing problems are inevitably overlooked. Because I don't have it, I think I can't concentrate because I can't concentrate. "
" Parents and teachers still have a strong idea that if they study hard, they will be able to read and write. I want you to understand that. "
Toward a society where everyone can learn easily
Mr. Kikuta and Mr. Tomonao found a way to deal with literacy difficulties through encounters with personal computers and tablet terminals.
However, this does not apply to everyone.
Experts point out that the symptoms of disability vary widely from person to person, and that individualized learning needs to be considered.
Japan LD Society President, University of Tsukuba Masayoshi Tsuge professor
"is their consideration of the study compared to the time it was elementary school has become as is done in much, but not enough still When you are said to be sufficient or"
"in learning is, each and every Appropriate consideration is required according to the situation. The teacher and parents consult with each other to formulate an "individual instruction plan", and we study both parents and school sites so that children's learning will not be missed. People also have to keep facing each other. "